Czar-gate more like Douchebag-gate

So Glenn Beck is citing all of the czars in Obama's government as a sign we've become socialist, or Nazi, or racist, or whatever he's pushing this week.

Czars ar epolitical and policy advisors in the White House that do not have to be confirmed by Congress. All recent presidents have had them. Energy czars. Drug policy czars. Environmental czars.

Except in the Bizarro World that Beck inhabits, facts don't matter. With Obama, it's different. It's taking away the America we used to know. It sounds like a pre-Communist Russian takeover. Mobilize the Red Dawn kids to save us. Except for Swayze, of course. RIP.

As Cenk Uyugr said on his show it's like the "gate" suffix added to a scandal. It's fun to say but there wasn't an actual "gate" involved in, say, "Travelgate."

From an Ezra Klein commenter:

The czar thing also bugged me because it's not an official title. Like if people would have called for the resignation of Tom Delay back in the day because a hammer can't be the Majority Leader. After all, hammers are inanimate objects and it's an affront to American values to have a lifeless tool at such a high office.